Comments on: Inferno

By: KFear

KFear — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:17:41 +0000

Very true. And it’s these types of comments that remind me that Argento has become a joke of a filmmaker. For me, the final stages of his career are an unbearable letdown. Nothing else compares.

By: Letitia

Letitia — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:38:05 +0000

I gave this movie a shot, but I found myself having to do other things while watching it to keep from drifting away. Great points about the narrative mess. Some filmmakers create movies that are dreamlike and seemingly illogical but still have an interior logic of their own–David Lynch, for example. This movie just makes no sense, though it seems to be trying to make sense.

By: KFear

KFear — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:23:44 +0000

A sadistic dream. One that is filled with great ideas and ambitions, but fails to tie them together. I think it’s a daring and solid film to follow Suspiria, but it would also make the third installment something of a puzzle to even begin to put to paper. Which made the third installment awful.
If I were in Dario’s shoes, I would find it to be almost impossible to tell this story on such a huge scale. The Three Mother’s trilogy was always meant to be seen in terms of forecasting the bigger picture; the end of the world, or total cultism. Dario never did translate this well. The more he tried, the more the films suffered. It’s as if this trilogy drove him mad, and poor Dario will never recover.